Elegans ram
| Elegans ram | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
_transalpina_angelicae-M-Salzburg,_Osterhorngruppe,_Fuschl_am_See-E-MK-21407a.jpg)
Elegans ram ( Zygaena angelicae ) |
||||||||||||
| Systematics | ||||||||||||
|
||||||||||||
| Scientific name | ||||||||||||
| Zygaena angelicae | ||||||||||||
| Ochsenheimer , 1808 |
The Elegans Ram or Ungeringtes Kronwickenwidderchen ( Zygaena angelicae ) is a butterfly ( moth ) from the ram family (Zygaenidae).
features
The moths reach a wingspan of 30 to 33 millimeters. They have blue-black or green-black fore wings, the inner angles of which are strongly rounded. The animals have five or six red spots on their front wings, two of which are always close together. In the case of the pentagonal animals, the spots on the underside of the wings are connected by a red stripe, in the case of the six-spotted animals they grow together to form a large spot on the underside. The black wing edge of the red hind wings is wide. The antennae are slightly thickened into a club and white at the tip. The color of the tip is weaker than that of the horseshoe ram ( Zygaena transalpina ) and may be completely absent.
The caterpillars are yellow-green in color and have a fine black stripe on the back and very fine black dots on the body. On both sides of the back, large black spots are always connected in pairs to form a longitudinal line. The animals also have black dots on the side. The head is pale green with two tiny black dots as eyes. The underside of the animal is light green, towards the back a neon yellow mixes with it.
Occurrence
They occur in Eastern Europe and from Greece to southern Germany and Thuringia . They live in sun-drenched forest islands , especially in steppe heather forests and on limestone grasslands between young pines .
Way of life
The females lay their yellow eggs in mirrors on the underside of the leaves. The caterpillars overwinter. Pupation takes place in an elongated, yellow cocoon on blades and stems. The pupa is black, yellow on the underside.
The caterpillars feed on the leaves of the mountain vetch ( Coronilla coronata ), less often those of the colorful vetch ( Securigera varia ). Koch also mentions the common horn clover ( Lotus corniculatus ) as a forage plant.
Flight and caterpillar times
The moths fly in one generation from July to mid-August. The caterpillars are found from September and after wintering until June of the following year.
Hazard and protection
- Red list FRG: 2 (endangered).
swell
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Manfred Koch : We identify butterflies. Volume 2: Bears, Spinners, Swarmers and Drills in Germany. 2nd, expanded edition. Neumann, Radebeul / Berlin 1964, DNB 452481929 , p. 62f.
- ↑ Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Ed.): Red List of Endangered Animals in Germany. Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster 1998, ISBN 978-3-896-24110-8
literature
- Günter Ebert (Ed.): The Butterflies of Baden-Württemberg Volume 3, Moths I (Root Borers (Hepialidae), Wood Borers (Cossidae), Ram (Zygaenidae), Slug Moth (Limacodidae), Sack Bearer (Psychidae), Window Spot (Thyrididae)), Ulmer Verlag Stuttgart 1993. ISBN 3-800-13472-1
- Hans-Josef Weidemann, Jochen Köhler: Moths. Weirdos and hawkers. Naturbuch-Verlag, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-89440-128-1 .
- CM Naumann, GM Tarmann, WG Tremewan: The Western Palaearctic Zygaenidae. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 1999, ISBN 87-88757-15-3